weird optimization in sin+cos, x86 backend
Andrew Haley
aph@redhat.com
Thu Feb 9 14:51:00 GMT 2012
On 02/09/2012 01:38 PM, Tim Prince wrote:
> x87 built-ins should be a fair compromise between speed, code size, and
> accuracy, for long double, on most CPUs. As Richard says, it's
> certainly possible to do better in the context of SSE, but gcc doesn't
> know anything about the quality of math libraries present; it doesn't
> even take into account whether it's glibc or something else.
Yeah. On x86_64 glibc, we should really get the sincos bg fixed. And
it really is a bug: cos() and sin() are correctly rounded but sincos()
isn't.
Andrew.
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